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Your Favorite Annuals This Year
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Posted by omniphasic 9 Ca (omniphasic@yahoo.com) on Sat, Jun 20, 09 at 20:14
This is the first year I'm growing Bidens and they are truly amazing!I put 3 quart sized ones in a 15 gallon container that I'm growing a Geijera in,and they've grown so immense and have bloomed non stop since March!They have literally thousands of blooms and the season is still young!
What are some of your favorites this year? |
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RE: Your Favorite Annuals This Year
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| I like reseeding annuals like larkspur, rose campion and verbena bonariensis. I have a lot of space where I fill gaps between the perennials. My zinnias are just starting to bloom and I love those... when I have photos, I'll post. The cosmos 'Sonata Pink' are fantastic! Wish I had planted more of those. In my full sun containers, I have purple lantana, petunias, ageratum and purple shield. In a partial shade bed, I've mixed impatiens, ageratum, purple heart with Encore Azaleas, purple heuchera, phlox 'robert poore' and creeping jenny. Cameron 
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RE: Your Favorite Annuals This Year
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| Beautiful! I keep changing my mind which ones I like best. That's par for the course, though. Much of it depends on their performance. I second your appreciation of bidens. They vary a bit with their growth habits, and some are cutting produced, some seed grown. I forgot entirely to do bidens this year and miss them! I think my orange Harmony new guinea impatiens outdid themselves. Also they look great partnered with pineapple yellow wizard coleus. Also very happy with my dreamland zinnias and mango portulaca, and orange appeal geraniums. Things look happy this year in the beds. Been a good spring so far. |
RE: Your Favorite Annuals This Year
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| My favorite annual this year so far has to be mimulas. I have a bright yellow one in a semi shady spot and it is really brightening up that spot. My least favorite is yellow torenia and browallia as they both died within weeks after planting. |
RE: Your Favorite Annuals This Year
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| I do love scaevola in pots and this year it has been particularly lovely. My favorite combo is with Lemonbird Cosmos. That clear yellow with the blue is terrific. For the second year in a row, I am using Profusion Zinnias, white, with Blue Salvia farinacea Rhea. They are in a half circle bed at my front entryway backed with a thick row of yellow Beautiful Edgings Daylilies. They look perfectly fresh and neat all the time, even in our 100 degrees we are having day after day, and will until frost. Hard to beat. I am using the Profusion Zinnias, Fire, with blue salvias in one of my other beds. The Fire holds its color better than any of the other colored Profusions I have tried. Cameron, if you see this, thanks for the tip on where to get the helioptrope Azure Skies. I got three plants and they are going like gangbusters. I am thrilled! |
RE: Your Favorite Annuals This Year
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| Donna -- glad you like Azure Skies. I'm using it to edge a lot of beds this year since it blooms non-stop. Cameron |
RE: Your Favorite Annuals This Year
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| What kind of annual is a Biden? I've never heard of it. |
RE: Your Favorite Annuals This Year
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| Agastache 'Summer Sky' (Terra Nova says it's hardy to zone 7, but everyone else says that it's only hardy to zone 8. Regardless, I'm growing it in a container and it's great as a tall, spikey centerpiece.) Angelonia gets the best performance award (typically every year) Silver plectranthus Coleus (the one I've been growing, and overwintering, for the last two years is 'El Supremo') Larkspur is a mainstay, but this year we had so much rain that it got very tall and flopped all over. |
RE: Your Favorite Annuals This Year
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| My favorite is Zebrina Malva. I grow it as an annual but it is a tender perennial in warmer zones. It reseeds readily but takes a while to grow so I save seed and start them in the greenhouse |
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